Penny Simkin, the namesake of Bastyr University’s Simkin Center for Allied Childbirth Vocations, helped give birth to the doula profession and has remained a frontrunner in serving childbearing women ever since.

A new campus, a new clinic and a yearlong birthday celebration for our institution’s namesake - all of that has happened in 2012. In November, there is even more to be thankful for and look forward to.